The great egret had returned on a late July morning to hunt in the shallow pond that borders our backyard. This is the second time in 22 years that we have seen that species here, other than an ...

Egrets, herons and roseate spoonbills have other birds beat when it comes to showing off stunning spring plumage. The all-white great egret appears to be decked out in silken attire accented by ...

The black heron (Egretta ardesiaca) is found in the wetlands of Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. It is part of the egret family, which is known for its graceful wading and its long legs, necks, and ...

A three-acre Susquehanna River island shelters some of Pennsylvania’s most threatened bird species. Wade Island, a part of ...

Q: At the heron rookery at Marshall Terrace Park in northeast Minneapolis, we noticed that the herons seem to nest on one island and the egrets on another. Do herons and egrets ever live together, or ...

Nesting season for wading birds is underway in Southwest Florida. The window of opportunity to see an amazing array of birds − like every type of heron, snowy and great egrets, roseate spoonbills and ...

This easy South Carolina boardwalk brings you face-to-face with gators and birds, turning a short walk into a wild experience.

The bird family Ardeidae (ar-dee-ih-dee) includes the bitterns, egrets, and herons. Nearly 75 species wade waters worldwide, with representatives on every continent but Antarctica. An even dozen is ...

An unprecedented number of great egrets — large, white wading birds from the South — have descended upon Lake Ontelaunee within the past week. Rudy Keller of District Township, who compiles the Berks ...

For generations, boaters have become very familiar with what they call Bird Island in Martin County. MC2, a spoil island in the Indian River Lagoon a hundred yards northeast of Sewall's Point's all ...

A group of juvenile birds was released back into the wild on Friday, almost two months after a Cypress nest was destroyed by a tree removal company in May, according to the Houston SPCA. Twenty-eight ...